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DONNA HANOVER, the estranged wife of MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, was questioned for six hours yesterday by his lawyer, RAOUL L. FELDER.

Although Ms. Hanover attended Mr. Giuliani's daylong session of questioning by her lawyer, HELENE BREZINSKY, last week, he skipped yesterday's session. Neither lawyer would say what was discussed, but recent discussions have involved money.

According to court documents filed in July, the mayor accused Ms. Hanover of diverting her earnings (she made $225,000 last year; the mayor's salary is $195,000) into her own bank account, while using their joint account to pay ''marital expenses.'' The mayor wanted that money returned to the couple's joint account. JUSTICE JUDITH J. GISCHE denied the request.

From Heiress to Actress

PATRICIA HEARST, whom PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON pardoned for robbing a bank with the Symbionese Liberation Army radicals who had kidnapped her in 1974, is about to do what everyone from Ms. Hanover to ALANIS MORISSETTE has done in Manhattan: take a turn at the microphone in EVE ENSLER'S play ''The Vagina Monologues.'' But she will do it not in Manhattan but in New Haven, starting Sept. 18.

Ms. Hearst, left, who has appeared in several films directed by her friend JOHN WATERS, including ''Cecil B. DeMented'' and ''Serial Mom,'' will join two actresses from the show's touring company. DAVID STONE, the lead producer, called the six-day run at the Shubert Theater ''a great opportunity for her as an actress to learn how to act on a stage.''

He said there would be only one rehearsal, a single four-hour session. ''It's like being shot right out of a cannon,'' he said. ''We talked for three hours the other day. The three monologues she's doing, she has a pretty good idea of what she wants to do.''

TRACEY A. LEIGH and AMY LOVE, the actresses who will appear with Ms. Hearst in New Haven, will take the show to Albany.

But the newspaper there, The Times Union, has so far refused to run advertisements for the show, Mr. Stone said.

As it happens, The Times Union is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which was started by Ms. Hearst's grandfather, William Randolph Hearst, and its associate publisher is one of Patricia Hearst's cousins, GEORGE R. HEARST III.

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Mr. Stone said that The Times Union had rejected the same advertisement that has appeared in 200 newspapers and magazines around the country.

''They won't tell us what's objectionable,'' he said, ''but they said we could keep submitting ads until they found one they liked or they would make up one themselves.''

The publisher, DAVID P. WHITE, said, ''We don't discuss our advertisers' business with anyone other than our advertisers.''

But he added, ''Our lifeblood is revenue, and we don't reject ads lightly.''

Beginnings and Endings

Oh, to be 16 and to see yourself in different movies playing at the same theater. SCARLETT JOHANNSON hasn't done that, though she could. The Clearview Cinema, at First Avenue and 62nd Street, is showing ''An American Rhapsody'' and ''Ghost World.'' ''We reshot the ending,'' she said of her ''Ghost World'' work, ''and I remember them saying, 'We think we want to shoot it again.' And then they went back to the first.''

So which did she like best? ''I don't know,'' she said. ''I never saw the second ending. They could have done a 'Wayne's World' kind of thing and shown both.''

Marrying a Doctor

''The Geena Davis Show'' lasted only 22 half-hours on ABC, but the GEENA DAVIS marriage is in its fifth day. On Saturday, she married DR. REZA JARRAHY, a 30-year-old surgeon who proposed just before Christmas, in the Hamptons hamlet of Wainscott, N.Y. They met through friends two years ago. The marriage is the fourth for Ms. Davis, 45, and his first.